Aphonopelma seemanni, Costa Rican Zebra Tarantula rehouse and care
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- Aphonopelma seemanni, Costa Rican Zebra Tarantula rehouse and care
The Costa Rican Zebra Tarantula has become the most common beginner tarantula in the hobby but is often overlooked by everyone else , it is a very showy spider often sitting outside on display , a great spider for keepers regardless of experience .
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I have many sepcies of tarantulas, but my overall favourites are the more common ones. Genicualta, albo, parahybana, rosea, etc. They are big, chunky, out for display most of the time, and always hungry. Cheap, hardy beautiful, great beginner species. All the reasons are with them! Big up for the commoners! 🥰
Love it……”It’s not a puppy” ❤
Oh, but it IS! It's just an eight-legged, soundless one!😂🎉
@@johanneabelsen1644 And FANGS! 🤗
Wonder if he has any jumping spiders. I haven't seen any videos with them so just wondering.
@@EmilyXiong1999 Dave has mentioned in the past that he isn't a huge fan of them particuarly 😅
@@faunasanctum But they have puppy eyes and are so smart and they eat other spiders.
My Alphonopelma seemani is one of my favorites. She loves her burrow but does often come out. She's very photogenic and dances everytime she eats.
Dave is in my opinion one of the best if not the best keeper of spiders. Be calm be gentle and love your spider is a very good line in keeping spiders and learning the behavior of spiders. And for beginners I can not reqement any other than Dave for learning how to keep your spider. Great great job Dave
Thank you so much 👍❤️
Isn't it incredibly satisfying when you do something (like watering your enclosures to keep them humid) and people complain and complain about it, then they see the benefits and start doing it themselves? LOL, well done!
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It's easy to see why this spider became so common in the hobby. Too bad that "familiarity breeds contempt" because their beauty and habits make them perfect for those who really want to enjoy their spider. Thanks for stressing again that just because a spider isn't defensive or aggressive doesn't mean they're a plaything.
and another great video Dave! I love the fact that you adressed again that the spiders are no puppy's, and its best to just observe them and take good care of them.
I have a sub adult, unsexed, Seemanni. I adopted it in January 2024, and it hasn't molted in my care yet. It loves it's burrow and has quite the menagerie of tunnels under the surface of the substrate. It's fascinating! I love my Seenanni ❤
My sub adult doesn't burrow, always out, so pretty
From what I've heard, the semanni that burrow are wild caught ones because that's how they lived in the wild. I know that's not a perfect way to tell, that's just what "people" say.
@@calliew311 I hadn't ever thought of that explanation, and I don't know if the breeder I got it from sells WC or is strictly a CB'r. It does seem to make a bit of sense though 😀
I often think of the spiders who are enjoying a better life because you take the time to educate us 🙂
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In the USA the chalcodes is also very popular, beautiful spiders
Those are pretty spiders 🕷🥰! Wishing you, dear Dave and our sweet camera lady, as well as all your viewers, a wonderful new week! ♥️💐🌞
Thank you! You too!❤️❤️❤️❤️
I have an adult female I saved from the local pet store. I know she was replaced but her home was horrible and I couldn't leave her. She was my 2nd tarantula, I believe she is wild caught as she stays in her den all the time, and is very shy. Also she will be very dark, almost black after molt, and turns brown as she gets clost to molt. And she will bury herself for months during molt. ❤
Hello great video information and rehouseing Dave
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They are very beautiful spiders it is a wonder why more people dont have them in their collection
So much information in this video 😊👍🏻
Thank you 🙏
She is a lovely spider. They are both so calm and laid back. The enclosure is very pretty. Great job, as usual. Wishing you and Camera Lady a great week.
Thank you ❤️❤️❤️
Always watch you to the beginning to the end
some very useful information on these spiders PROFF. very striking colours on both especially the darker one. another fine video to add to the collection. well done CAMERA LADY some great footage many thanks guys and take care
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So close!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
My seemanni has dug out a really cool little burrow! Right against the glass too so I can see in!🤩🥰🕷️
Nice. This is the spider from the first Home Alone film.
The one on the left the black form looks like a young Silverback gorilla by her colors ! Very very pretty ! Same with the brown one ! She's pretty too!
They’re both pretty, but the black one is definitely the prettier ❤
Hi Dave and Camera Lady 💙💕🕷️ Hope you’re both doing well and had a wonderful weekend.
Lovely rehouse video, I always really enjoy seeing them. It’s definitely artistic expression!
The Zebra legged are so strikingly beautiful Tarantulas, in either colour. I do like the blue/black combination. They’re quite chill, no drama 😊 sat and modelled for Camera Lady too.
Action is needed to keep population up before they start declining!
Always enjoy your content!
Take care and have a great new week ahead 💙💕🕷️🥰xxx
Thank you 🙏 ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for mentioning the handling!!!! I‘m over 20 years into keeping and NEVER intentionally handle them. Same with my scorpions.
I see them like fishes: you watch them, not hold them.
If you want to cuddle and play, get a puppy 🐶 (that’s why I got 2 dogs and a pony LOL)
Love how you mention the conservation as well as keeping for these beautiful spiders!!! Wonderful close ups from camera lady!! So cool to see them close up!!!!
Thank you very much!👍
I got my girl in the mail today. She's a bit of a brown black mix.. absolutely beautiful.. great video Dave
Hey Dave love your vids, me and grandma watch them all the time, keep up the great work. P.S PUT THE LID ON DAVE!!! P.S.S. I’m 12 y.o and me and my grandma have watched every single video of yours, plz keep posting
Thanks 👍Thats awesome say hello to your gran for me ❤️❤️❤️
These used to be in my local petshop, alongside the rosea and blondi when I started with my spiders in the 80's
I have an adult female Seemani named Kevin (Home Alone). I love her, she's almost always out on display and has a very laid back temperament. She's the one I show to people who aren't comfortable with spiders but want to see one. ❤
These are definitely overlooked by a lot of people. Lovely T's.
Picked one of these up from the recent BTS, juvi female, she lovely and super chilled just sits out most of the time on show
Lovely spider. My 2nd spider was a zebra about 35 years ago. First was a chilean rose. Would spend ages watching them.
Don't forget to remove that small widow Dave.
Alot of great info in this video, as always👍🏻 26:50
I got mine almost as an accident, and it has become one of my favorites! She is super chill, often out, and gorgeous after a molt.
They are pretty. I really like the chocolate color one.
This was the first species that I kept, back in 1987. I think that I paid £12.50 for her and I bought her to have something different from the reptiles that I already kept. A few years later I had around 300 spiders!
Stunning spider and nice advice this time! A great week for you and Camera Lady!
Thank you 🙏
Lots of good advice here! Their legs are so impressive and I love to see the spider move around.
Another amazing video Dave. Your videos helped me overcome my fear of spiders as I was able to learn so much about them. Now have 9 tarantulas in my collection - including one of these beauties. Always love hearing everything in so much detail but explained so clearly. Keep up the terrific work - both you and cameralady.
Thats awesome my friend ❤️👍
Dave, I love your videos! 2 years ago, I couldn't even look at pictures of spiders. Now I have 2 T's and may be getting a 3rd. Good on you and Camera Lady for all of the work you do! Keep 'em coming!
That is awesome!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Absolutely love your rehousing videos!
Thank you so much!❤️
I got one of these. A gorgeous female. I named her Beetle Juice like the the character in the movie cause her black and white stripes reminds me of Beetle Juice.
Hi Dave, My A. seemanni went from brown to almost a blueish black with its recent molt. it has a little burrow but spends most of its time out and about. Hes one of my favorites
Mine is still a sling, burrowed away. But im not worried, it's burrowed right up against the side of the tub so i see it every day! Unlike my hamorii & emilia, Been no sign of them for weeks!
Mine too. Slow grower which I like.
@@MARKYMARKSSPIDERSNBUGS I'm loving watching the slings grow but at the same time & can't wait to see them turn from grey to their adult colours!
Great video as always ❤
As for the spider: now I want one of these 😂 very pretty! ❤
We have slings and females available message me on Facebook
Beautiful spider! And again a great video! Your videos are my favorite go to, if I have questions about a species. And a welcome distraction from learning for nursing school atm 😂
Greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭
Awesome! Thank you!❤️
beautiful spiders!
They are so beautiful, I have always had one in my collection
I got my Seemani from you at the Brighton Invert Show last November, Dave. She’s absolutely stunning and has such a lovely nature ❤
Thats fantastic ❤️❤️❤️
A great update video on the spieces Dave & Camera Lady. I've always liked the look of it, attractive spider. 😎
Thank you kindly
She’s a beauty Dave, great video as always. Thanks for taking your time to educate us.
18:31 Lovely! That blue/black combo would make a beautiful tuxedo.
Substrate warriors 😂😂😂
Real cuties ❤❤
The substrate warriors lol 🤣🤣🤣
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Hi Dave and hi camera lady
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Great T, I have a female that is in pre-molt. She loves her burrow.
They look a lot like the skeleton leg,you are co they Re very beautiful ❤
If one is lucky enough to score examples from Nicaragua, they have the blue hues under light. There are examples from Costa Rica of course, Guatemala and then Nicaragua.
They are common because 99% of them are wild caught. As you mentioned, before it was G. rosea - also 99.9% wild caught. As long as Nicaragua keeps legally exporting A. seemanni wild caughts, I cant support or recommend this spider to keep
Great looking spider very nice enclosure now please if you watch the video please push the light button to keep Dave going on the channel. He’s very informative to everybody and we want to keep them on the channel so please press the button and subscribe thank you from Janice Traci, California .
Thats why its important to breed these in captivity 👍
I only go for CB with breeders I know personally. It’s also handy for setting up future breedings. I’d advise all newcomers and breeders to get off their islands and fully engage with one another.
It’s not only about securing our hobby but a species too. I’m dead serious about my P. metallica breeding for that reason as all Poeci’s are having a horrible time in the wild due to deforestation.
@@daveslittlebeasties absolutely, great video!
in canada they are all captive bred
Great video Dave. In my early years in the hobby ,I had one of those. It was the brown form. Not defensive but very nervous. It jumped out of my hand and tried to get away. Never picked it up again.
Mine just moulted today sir Dave I waited for 8 months and checked the moult and is a female 👍 I got them as a sling.
That's awesome❤️👍
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Great video guys thank you so much beautiful spiders thank you very much xxxx
mine is incredibly defensive, she goes straight to a threat pose.
great content!
Great video and beautiful spider now whoever is watching the videos please press the light button and subscribe. We want to keep Dave on the channel. He’s so informative and great videos so once again press like button and subscribe to keep him on thank you.
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I didnt realize they were terrestrial. Mine acts more likr a fasorial. She is always in her burrow. Until its time to eat. And thats it. Then back home she goes.
Love the black on think i may try start with one of these im thinkin common or not there stunning trying to convince my husband to let me have it 😅 thank you both for this video really appreciated will be buying off you if you get slings 😊😊😊
We have some here message me on Facebook 👍
Morning Dave & Camera lady wot an amazing rehouse and she is a beautiful female love the stripes on there legs
My room is a bit warmer than than average room temperature due to it being the hottest room in the house. I've never had a issue with Tarantulas moulting
Dave and Camera Lady 💜 well on the way to 100k subs, bring it on!! Please can we have an update on the Beastie Shed if possible 🙏
Hoping to start building in August
@@daveslittlebeasties fingers crossed 🤞 thanks 👍
Hi dave n camera lady, this is the video I been looking for especially from the beastie duo❤ I've got a seemanni just turned small juvenile un sexed as yet hopefully its a female ❤ nice one mate I really been waiting for this 👍💯
I really enjoy your videos about good beginner spiders and the ones at the other end of the spectrum, your knowledge is so valuable to all of your subs. I really loved the enclosure it looked truly beautiful, what spider did you find inside the enclosure? I am getting so excited about my first show, I will probably end up dragging my husband around the country to attend all the shows, he will probably faint after seeing two spiders, my hubby and my eldest son are petrified of them thankfully my youngest isn’t but he doesn’t like them crawling on him! ❤❤❤
It was a false widow
i have to tell my king baboon to stop burrowing since it's not in the wild
Mine still burrow they just dont need 6 feet of substrate to feel secure 😂👍
👍👍so creepy
Any chance you have a brachypelma klassi & might be doing a care video soon? Just got a juvenile a month ago and he/she is doing well! the brachypelma genus are my favorite!
Hi dave
Look at what you have to pay for both the rosea & smithie now 😳😳😳😳
Very informative video. Are there little flies in there with her? I remember the terrible time you had with the florid flies that one time.
Dave said there is also a widow spider too . She won't be short of companions 😮
Yes they are they wont bother her they often come from the soil
Thanks Dave and Camera Lady for another great video. I was wondering with a collection like you have, how much does it effect your heating bills.
Not much tbf
Another great video as usual and after alot of talk about beginner spiders im curious to know what your first spider was dave? ❤💜
It was a B.smithi
Ooh...have been looking at getting one of these 😊
Another brilliant video guys , I absolutely love my sub adult female (blue form) she always digs out a deepish burrow and either sits out on top of the substrate or just inside her entrance, a gorgeous T and definitely a must have species 👍
How long does it take for the hair's to grow back after it's hair kicked, karate Tim 🥋🙏♥️.
Depends can take a number of moults
Quite right spiders shouldn't be handled unnecessarily observation is enough, like fish in aquariums too be gazed at and that should be enough.
When I was in college one of the students used to come in with his spider a tarantula I think, he obviously was an idiot, the student not the spider. 😊
What was that tiny bug at around 18:10??
Hi Dave, nice video👍But I want to comment about those terrariums with one-sided ventilation, I don't like them. You neither get good air flow, neither excess humidity evaporation. Why did you choose to go with them?
The lids on them are not air tight so allow air flow around the enclosure also I only really use them for drier species and they work perfectly 👍
Mine likes to dig down about 12 inches.
Looks like the one on the right is about to molt, with the dark bald spot.
Are you going to rehouse the other spider as well
Can you do a rehouse on the spiders that kick hairs
This one does 😂👍
I have a sub adult but was taken aback when I had white mould spores in the corner I moisten...what can I do to stop this happening again
They will cause no harm
Hiya Dave & Camera Lady, cracking video as always, couple of quick questions, you've not referred to "Beastie Mix", lately, have you stopped collecting/using, if so any particular reason? If you were setting up a small group for display, maybe 2-3 spiders (ish), is the balfouri the only option, or are there others that can co-exist in small numbers? Cheers both, keep up the good work
I just havent had time to collect any beastie mix of late , and yes the balfouri are the only real communal spiders in my opinion 👍
Hey dave, any plans on rebreeding the king baboon, as well as the lively colbalt blue female you got a couple of episodes ago ?
Once we can locate a male 👍
Thanks for this video Dave. I had a beautiful black & white variant 3 yrs ago, Ordered another 2 yrs ago but arrived as the brown variant. I think I remember hearing that the brown variation were from Nicaragua, the black/blue from Costa Rica and beautiful lighter blue variant (which may actually be a different species) from Guatemala. makes sense as they all pretty much border one another, geographically. have you ever heard this?
Anyway, After hearing what you've said, I'm now hoping my brown variant will be much darker after her moult! fingers crossed!.
Dave, does temperature in anyway make spiders more or less eager to breed?
Yes it does for many
Hi Dave and camera lady. If you reuse sub strain from other enclosures, doesn't the feramones from other spiders upset or disturb the spider that gets reused sub strain?
No I normally mix it in with some fresh stuff too
If a person buys slings would they be wild caught or bred?
Ares are captive bred 👍
Mine is very unhandleble …. She bit the brush so hard a couple of days ago …. I am not picking her up